New career, any ideas?

Xordium said:
Well then you can narrow out some jobs then the ones that require you to put that kind of continuous study time in after. Working out what hours you can feasibly work will help you narrow down your areas of exploration. No point doing a degree towards a job that would require that kind of commitment.
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well i have absolutly no social life at all. so aslong as i had atleast 1 day a week i could just do nothing (other than spend time with the kids) then i can devote the rest of my time to a job.

im really not painting a great picture of myself now am i :o
 
There are plenty of foundation degrees you can do which run in the evening and they are designed for mature student who have to work at the same time.

I'm starting a fda degree in music tech in september and i'm going to have to find a decent job i can work around it.
 
Xordium said:
Lol maybe this didn't help in the other thread:



If you do decide to undergo a course don't say that at the interview. That's my top tip!
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haha yes, that is very true :o although i find if im studying i am pretty good at picking out the bits i need from the relevent sections. its reading something cover to cover i struggle with. but this steams from something far too deep to go into :p
 
OK so far 3 things have stood out to me :
Accountant
Contract Law (I think Criminal Law is a bit above me at this moment in time)
Project Management (I like take a situation and working out the best way to achieve and end goal. I think thats what this involves :o)

So where do I go now? Who do I get the appropriate info on what qualifications are needed, where to get the training etc?
 
Physcology?

Hope you didn't teach people that on your ECDL and C.V writing courses :p

/annoying

Tried visiting the local careers office? They will have detailed info on all sorts of careers.
 
paradisiac said:
OK so far 3 things have stood out to me :
Accountant
Contract Law (I think Criminal Law is a bit above me at this moment in time)
Project Management (I like take a situation and working out the best way to achieve and end goal. I think thats what this involves :o)

So where do I go now? Who do I get the appropriate info on what qualifications are needed, where to get the training etc?
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you start using google... and find out - seriously there are only a finite number of courses you can do and there's bags of info out there.
 
If you want a career in accountancy you have a couple of options (that i can think of, im sure there are others).

1) Get a training contrat with an accountancy firm, there are literally hundreds out there, this is a list of the top 50 (by revenue i guess).

http://www.accountancyage.com/digital_assets/3322/AccyAgeTop50v6.pdf

These will train you to be a fully fledged ACA accountant, the big ones can be a bit snobby so I suggest finding a slightly smaller practise (the big ones want 2.1 at uni and decent A levels). The good thing is that they suck in hundreds of people into their training schemes every year. This will take up three years of your life but leave you VERY employable - I left PwC a month or so ago and am earning £55k in London.

2) The above option is fairly full on. You could decide to go to college to do an AAT course, this is basically an accounting technician course and will land you a role as a book keeper / junior accountant in industry (e.g. being an accountant for a company). You might find a firm that is will to sponsor you to do it otherwise pay for it yourself. I think there is some overlap with AAT and ACA so if you do AAT and like it I think you can skip some of the ACA exams.

You might find option number #1 to be tough, option #2 will be a bit more flexible.
 
Tyron said:
You can't live with parents/friends? There must be something?
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nope, i have neither (well none that live close enough i would be able to see my kids)

Aloreth said:
If you want a career in accountancy you have a couple of options (that i can think of, im sure there are others).

1) Get a training contrat with an accountancy firm, there are literally hundreds out there, this is a list of the top 50 (by revenue i guess).

http://www.accountancyage.com/digital_assets/3322/AccyAgeTop50v6.pdf

These will train you to be a fully fledged ACA accountant, the big ones can be a bit snobby so I suggest finding a slightly smaller practise (the big ones want 2.1 at uni and decent A levels). The good thing is that they suck in hundreds of people into their training schemes every year. This will take up three years of your life but leave you VERY employable - I left PwC a month or so ago and am earning £55k in London.

2) The above option is fairly full on. You could decide to go to college to do an AAT course, this is basically an accounting technician course and will land you a role as a book keeper / junior accountant in industry (e.g. being an accountant for a company). You might find a firm that is will to sponsor you to do it otherwise pay for it yourself. I think there is some overlap with AAT and ACA so if you do AAT and like it I think you can skip some of the ACA exams.

You might find option number #1 to be tough, option #2 will be a bit more flexible.
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thanks for the info, i will look int o both options :) so is there different type of accountancy jobs then (i thought they kinda just had peoples books and stuff and made sure it was all acceptable for the tax man :o)
 
An accountancy firm is a professional servies firm, the majority of their work comes from auditing companies financial statements (checking that they are correct). They also provide lots of other services depending on their size, google some of the larger ones and you will find that they advise on everything from environmental change to business recovery.

Working as an accountant in industry you will be preparing (or helping to prepare) the financial statements. You might be checking the operation of internal controls as well and potentially risk asssessment. Some of the more interesting firms will have project work which often involves finding ways of making business processes more efficient.

Within accountancy firms there is also the tax side, looking after high net worth individuals tax returns etc. Fraid I dont know much about it though!
 
well i think i will look into law :) i have spoken to my aunty who is a law lecturer and she is going to send me some sample course stuff for me to look over and see if its for me :) there are a lot of areas in law to go into, and im sure its a profession that will always be needed.
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
OP: For a start you need to start using capital letters and using full English words. If I had a job vacancy going I certainly would want somebody who can string a full sentence together.

Yes I am being serious! All somebody has to judge you on from your application are the things you have written and how well it has been written.
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THIS is a forum, THIS IS NOT a job application.

My reports i write for Uni are Word perfect, grammer and shiz is down and i get 80%'s for my reports.

But on forums i just couldnt care less.
 
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